Apocryphal books (New Testament); Christian heresies -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Gnosticism
Now therefore, my Lord, be not angry with me, but reveal to me the word
about which I shall ask thee. It happened therefore, Jesus having heard
these words, saying them Maria, the Magdalene, answered then (but, MS)
Jesus, said he to her, Seek after that which thou wishest to seek after,
and I shall reveal it to thee in an exactness with a certainty, Amen,
amen I say to you, Rejoice in great joy and be [171^a] glad greatly
greatly, ye are seeking after every thing in an exactness, and I shall
be glad greatly greatly, because ye seek after every thing in an
exactness. And ye seek after the manner (in) which it is worthy to seek.
Now therefore, seek after that which thou seekest after, and I shall
reveal it to thee in joy. It happened therefore, Maria having heard
these words, saying them the Saviour, she rejoiced in great joy, and she
was glad for her greatly greatly. Said she to Jesus, My Lord and my
Saviour, then of what kind are the twenty-four Invisibles, and being,
also, of what type: or otherwise rather of what nature: or, then, being
of what nature is their light? But answered Jesus, said he [171^b] to
Maria, What is that which is in this World being like to them: or what,
rather, of Place which is in this World is that which is resembling unto
them? Now therefore unto what shall I compare them: or, rather, is that
which I shall say concerning them: for there is not any one in this
World unto whom I shall be able to compare them; and there is not any of
appearance in it unto whom I shall be able to liken them? Now therefore
there is not any in this World being of the nature of the heaven, Amen I
say to you, Each Invisible, is great(er) than the heaven with the Sphere
which is upon it, and with the twelve Aeons together nine times,
according as I finished saying to you another time. And there is not any
light in this World being preferable unto the light [172^a] of the sun.
Amen, amen I say to you: The twenty-four Invisibles are of light more
than the light of the sun which is in this World ten thousand times
according as I finished saying to you another time. Because that the
light of the sun in his truth of shape is not in this Place. Because
that his light passeth through many veils of Places. But the light of
the sun in his truth of shape, this which becometh in the Place of the
Virgin of the Light shineth more than the twenty-four Invisibles and
with the great Forefather invisible and with also the great
Triple-powered God a ten thousand times, according as I finished saying
to you another time. [172^b] Now therefore, Maria, there is not any
appearance in this world, nor is there light, nor is there shape
comparable to the twenty-four Invisibles, that I should compare them
unto them: but yet another little time, thou with thy brothers of
fellow-disciples, I shall take you unto all the Places of the Height,
and I shall take you unto the three Spaces of the First Mystery, until
the Places only of the Space of the Ineffable.
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